U.S. Officially Notifies U.N. It’s Withdrawing From Paris Climate Agreement

By William Teach August 5, 2017 – 11:25 am

It’s about time

(Reuters) The US State Department has officially informed the United Nations it will withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement in a document issued on Friday, but left the door open to re-engaging if the terms improved for the United States.

The State Department said in a press release the United States would continue to participate in United Nations climate change meetings during the withdrawal process, which is expected to take at least three years.

“The United States supports a balanced approach to climate policy that lowers emissions while promoting economic growth and ensuring energy security,” the department said in the release.

Said press release reads in full

Today, the United States submitted a communication to the United Nations, in its capacity as depositary for the Paris Agreement, regarding the U.S. intent to withdraw from the Paris Agreement as soon as it is eligible to do so, consistent with the terms of the Agreement. As the President indicated in his June 1 announcement and subsequently, he is open to re-engaging in the Paris Agreement if the United States can identify terms that are more favorable to it, its businesses, its workers, its people, and its taxpayers.

The United States supports a balanced approach to climate policy that lowers emissions while promoting economic growth and ensuring energy security. We will continue to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions through innovation and technology breakthroughs, and work with other countries to help them access and use fossil fuels more cleanly and efficiently and deploy renewable and other clean energy sources, given the importance of energy access and security in many nationally determined contributions.

The United States will continue to participate in international climate change negotiations and meetings, including the 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP-23) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, to protect U.S. interests and ensure all future policy options remain open to the administration. Such participation will include ongoing negotiations related to guidance for implementing the Paris Agreement.

It will be very interesting to see just how the Trump administration engages at COP-23, to be held in Bonn, Germany this November. They’re obviously against all those big, big initiatives which place burdens, restrictions, fees, and taxes on citizens on the United States. But, what you do not hear is the support for alternatives to go with oil and natural gas. So, how does Team Trump engage at COP-23? Time will tell.

Regardless, the idiotic ‘climate change’ policies of Barack Obama are being slowly wiped away.

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California Considers Suing DOJ Over Immigration Funds Crackdown

By William Teach August 5, 2017 – 7:28 am

There’s a very easy solution to this problem: cooperate with federal officials, who are tasked with enforcing immigration law by the Constitution and duly passed immigration law at the federal level. Instead, the municipalities, counties, and state itself wants to be a sanctuary area for people who are unlawfully present in the United States

California preparing to sue Trump administration

California is poised to sue the Trump administration over the president’s latest attempt to punish jurisdictions tagged by the Justice Department as “sanctuary cities” that harbor undocumented immigrants, according to two sources close to the case.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra — in conjunction with other California city and county attorneys — is considering charging the Justice Department with violating the Constitution by threatening to take crime-fighting funds away from cities and states that do not fully cooperate with federal immigration agents, according to those sources.

“The cities and states affected by these provisions have strong arguments to make in court that these conditions are illegal,” said a former Justice Department official familiar with California officials’ thinking. “If Congress wanted these requirements to be part of the grant funding decision, they would have written it into the law.”

California wasn’t complaining when Obama was threatening to cut funding from schools for failing to make them gender confused compliant, which was not part of the grant funding. Of course, there’s a big difference: the schools were not violating federal law, while the California jurisdictions are, along with protecting illegals, many of whom are actual criminals. If the jurisdictions aren’t using the fund to actually fight crime, most specifically illegal immigration, then they do not need the funds. If they’re willing to look away from people who are, at a minimum, trespassing on U.S. soil, they do not need the funds. If they can’t simply pick up a phone at call ICE, they do not need the funds. If they can’t hold an illegal alien for a mere 48 hours, per ICE detainers, they do not need the funds.

California was allocated nearly $18 million under that program in Fiscal 2017. To get future grants, municipalities will have to allow federal immigration agents access to detention facilities, and provide 48-hours notice before they release inmates who are wanted by federal authorities on suspicion of being in the country illegally.

How hard can that be? It’s not burdensome in the least. But these California jurisdictions choose to make things tough. And choices can have consequences.

Gil Duran, a Democratic strategist in California, said now is the time for officials to demonstrate “bold leadership and stand up for their highest values.”

Apparently, those values represent protecting illegal aliens who murder, maim, harm, rape, burglarize, assault, and steal the identities of lawful U.S. residents and citizens. Perhaps Mr. Duran can discuss this bold leadership and those highest values with Kate Steinle. It would work as well as explaining Ted Kennedy being lionized by Democrats to Mary Jo Kopechne.

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Trump May Break Tradition By Holding Meetings With Leaders At His Golf Course Or Something

By William Teach August 5, 2017 – 7:07 am

Because, in Credentialed Media World, everything Trump does, no matter how minor, must be questioned and put in the worst possible terms. Because they’re just doing their jobs as journalists, you guys. They’re revved up and ready to go after their 8 year nap. The app version of this Washington Post article has the headline “Trump would break with tradition if he hosts leaders attending U.N. meeting at his N.J. golf club”, vs the regular web of

Trump may host visiting leaders at his N.J. golf club during upcoming U.N. meeting

President Trump is planning to host foreign leaders at his New Jersey golf club when he attends the annual U.N. General Assembly session next month, breaking decades of precedent for U.S. presidents, said people familiar with preparations for the gathering.

The State Department is getting ready for an unspecified number of foreign meetings at the Bedminster, N.J., golf club over several days during the week of Sept. 18. The White House has not announced plans for Trump’s first visit to the gathering, which usually draws roughly 150 heads of state.

U.S. presidents usually attend the gathering for about two days, while the secretary of state stays for a week or more. Both typically hold meetings with foreign dignitaries at hotels or the U.N. headquarters, taking advantage of a unique gathering of leaders and diplomats. State Department staffers jokingly call the back-to-back sessions diplomatic speed dating.

The plans for Bedminster mark the latest example of the president’s holding official events at his Trump-branded properties, including his Florida summit meeting in April with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago.

OK, and?????? Have you seen this place? It’s gorgeous. It has award winning cuisine and facilities. Perhaps world leaders will enjoy getting away from the stuffy U.N. building and hotels and hanging out at a beautiful golf course, looking out at trees and animals (and people making violent gestures after a bad shot), eating great food.

Still, the idea of an American president receiving dignitaries at a private business far from U.N. headquarters is unsettling, said Bill Richardson, a former U.N. ambassador and former governor of New Mexico.

“It’s better to do it in the city. Do it at the U.N.,” Richardson said. “Symbolism is important. This is the U.N. There should be an acknowledgment of the importance of the U.N., not snubbing them.”

How is inviting them to Bedminster a snub? That part doesn’t get explained. But, then, this is the #Resistance as put in print by the so-called impartial news media.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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D.C.’s Legends Of Tomorrow Decides To Add Muslim Superhero, Who’s Original Codename Was Isis

By William Teach August 4, 2017 – 4:59 pm

Apparently, The CW has decided it wants to drastically shrink the pool of people who’ll watch the show, and, really, the network

(Variety) “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow” is adding a major character to its third season.

Tala Ashe is joining the CW show as a series regular, Variety has learned. The actress will take on the role of Zari Adrianna Tomaz, a new member of the team aboard the Waverider.

The character Zari Adrianna Tomaz is a Muslim-American woman from the year 2030 who lives in a world of contradictions — technology has brought about incredible change in her future, but too bad human nature hasn’t kept pace. Fear, prejudice and a lack of care for the planet have forced Zari to become a “grey hat hacktivist.” Described as a computer nerd with a wry, combative attitude, she is a woman living a double life who doesn’t realize that she has secret, latent powers derived from an ancient, mystical source.

A follow up article from Variety really ramps up the social justice warrioring and virtue signaling, but, here’s where it gets really fun.

In the comics, Adrianna Tomaz was a citizen of the fictional nation of Kahndaq who fights against its corrupt government, specifically against the country’s leader Black Adam. Eventually she becomes the hero named Isis.

Think they’ll keep that superhero name?

As for that follow up acticle

Adding a Muslim character in the midst of the current political climate was no coincidence.

“You might have heard there was this election,” cracked executive producer Marc Guggenheim on Wednesday at the Television Critics Association press tour in Beverly Hills. “Not to get political, but something that we all gravitated toward in the writers room was making this character Muslim.”

One has to wonder, though, if this is more about patronizing the people who tend to watch the show in order to make money than any sort of SJW garbage.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 4, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is what might be an evil fossil fueled gas container, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on a homeowner charged with shooting a criminal who broke in.

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Doom: ‘Climate Change’ To Destroy Your Popcorn Habit

By William Teach August 4, 2017 – 12:34 pm

Despite there being continuous record crops for corn (and we won’t mention how so much of that food is wasted by turning it into low-powered, almost worthless fuel), doom is coming

Climate Change Will Destroy Your Popcorn Habit

If you were planning on munching on popcorn while the world burns around you, archaeologists have some bad news.

A new study, published Thursday in the journal Science, indicates that unless we act, and act fast, climate change could threaten everybody’s favorite meme-able snack: popcorn.

The new research, which looks at the evolution of maize in the United States over thousands of years, indicates that the corn’s adaptation to new climates was a slow process. And even with modern technology, it seems helping corn adapt to our rapidly changing world won’t be easy.

Corn has been around for 10,000 or more years, has survived multiple warm periods throughout the Holocene, but, now it’s doomed? These people are nuts.

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America’s Pre-schools Aren’t Gay Enough Or Something

By William Teach August 4, 2017 – 7:00 am

This is the kind of thing people worry about when they have too much time on their hands, have a good place to live, good and plentiful food to eat, and good safety, along with people around them who not only do not tell them “you should keep some thoughts to yourself” because those thoughts are unhinged, but push them to let those thoughts out

America’s Preschools Aren’t Gay Enough, Taxpayer-Funded University Of Michigan Sociologist Warns

A sociology instructor at the taxpayer-funded University of Michigan has published an academic journal article exposing America’s preschool classrooms as hotbeds of “heteronormative play” where “traditional fairy tales” persist and “heterosexuality is always assumed, expected, ordinary, and privileged.”

The University of Michigan instructor behind the exposé of sexuality in preschool life is Heidi M. Gansen, according to Campus Reform.

Sociology of Education, a quarterly journal, published the July 14 article entitled “Reproducing (and Disrupting) Heteronormativity: Gendered Sexual Socialization in Preschool Classrooms.”

To conduct her research, Gansen observed unsuspecting little kids in nine preschool classrooms in Michigan for almost a year.

She found that “heteronormativity” is rampant in the preschool classrooms. In laymen’s terms, the word “heteronormative” means that people aren’t gay and don’t cross-dress.

That’s because they’re just young kids, who aren’t worried about the same things that a “qualitative sociologist who studies sociology of education, social inequality, gender and sexuality, and childhood” does. Things like naps, play time, painting all over everything, jumping in puddles, and snack time are more important.

Preschools promote “practices that facilitate heteronormativity in classrooms” and the “reproduction of inequalities pertaining to gender and sexuality,” Gansen writes.

Heterosexual behavior is “produced” and “enforced” by teachers and — somehow — by little preschool kids, the taxpayer-funded sociologist explains. (snip)

Gansen helpfully suggests that America’s preschool teachers need to start disrupting all this “heteronormative” behavior. They need to start telling little preschool kids how great gay marriage is, she write, according to Campus Reform.

Without such active disruption, Gansen warns, “heteronormativity” is “already ingrained in children by ages 3 to 5.”

In other words, she’s upset that teachers aren’t pushing deviancy, and the kids aren’t being gay and crossdressers.

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Good News: L.A. County Paid Out $1.3 Billion In Welfare To Illegal Aliens

By William Teach August 4, 2017 – 6:37 am

Remember this?

To the editor: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and County Supervisor Hilda Solis in December announced the creation of a $10-million legal aid fund to “hire lawyers to defend local immigrants without legal status.” (“A $10-million fund will help immigrants fight deportations. But should it help those with violent criminal convictions?” April 17)

My street hasn’t been swept for years. When I tried to find out why, I was told that my area is not “on the list” because there are no longer enough machines and people to drive them. Services that I continue to pay for have been stopped.

If there is enough money around to help illegal immigrants, surely there is enough to begin sweeping my dirty street again. Shouldn’t citizens come before illegal residents?

Well, sorry, Arline George, that money is going somewhere else

(Fox News) Illegal immigrant families received nearly $1.3 billion in Los Angeles County welfare money during 2015 and 2016, nearly one-​quarter of the amount spent on the county’s entire needy population, according to data obtained by Fox News.

The data was obtained from the county Department of Public Social Services — which is responsible for doling out the benefits — and gives a snapshot of the financial costs associated with sanctuary and related policies.

The sanctuary county of Los Angeles is an illegal immigration epicenter, with the largest concentration of any county ​in the nation, according to a study from the Migration Policy Institute. ​The county also allows illegal immigrant parents with children born in the United States to seek welfare and food stamp benefits.

On the bright side, it’s expected that the Los Angeles County will spend $200 million less in 2017, as fewer illegal aliens arrive and more have left, mostly due to allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to do their job, to enforce the laws that are on the books, unfettered by politicians and political appointees.

We keep being told that illegal aliens are a boon for our economy. Well, the illegals are getting $3 in benefits for every $1 they spend. It sure seems that they are more of a drain on taxpayer money that giving more back.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Cult Of Climastrology Decides To Tackle The Evilness Of Cats And Dogs

By William Teach August 3, 2017 – 3:15 pm

This isn’t actually new, Warmists have long had a bug up their bums when it comes to pets, but, like any good Warmist meme, they circle back around to it now and then

(Daily Caller) Pet dogs and cats are only making global warming worse, according to a University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) study.

The study claims the meat-based diet of many dogs and cats requires more meat than the average human diet, meaning the existence of pets is making global warming worse.

“I do think we should consider all the impacts that pets have so we can have an honest conversation about them,” Gregory Okin, a UCLA geography professor involved in the research, said in a press statement. “Pets have many benefits, but also a huge environmental impact.”

How does one have an “honest conversation” with complete nutballs, who also have problems with children, referring to them as “little carbon footprints”, much less the fact that the same people massage, spin, fake, and manufacture data?

Okin claims that dogs and cats eat a lot of meat, which releases the equivalent of about 64 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually. He says that getting rid of dogs and cats would be the environmental equivalent of removing 13.6 million cars from the road. Dogs and cats are especially environmentally unfriendly compared to other vegetarian pets.

Yeah, he is actually recommending doing away with all cats and dogs as pets. Totally nutballs.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 3, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is Australia turning to desert and fog from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny, with a post on a DREAMer raping a woman in a sanctuary city.

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